Walsh Bay is the kind of Sydney neighbourhood you could safely assume to be teeming with tourists and intracity visitors. The compact suburb begins as you step foot under the south-west side of the Harbour Bridge, a stone’s throw away from The Rocks and – from its opposite edge – just a short walk from Barangaroo. It’s defined by remarkable heritage wharves from which the public can gaze out to Northern Sydney, Luna Park and Cockatoo Island.

Despite all this, Walsh Bay has long felt sleepy outside of the eight-or-so times a week that patrons arrive (and depart) en masse for theatre, choral and dance performances. For the past two years, Right Angle have been working with Create NSW to define a retail strategy that can help change this through a suite of uses that are as creative as the organisations that already call the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct home.